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Kevin Costner: It’s about the work. “The red carpet is an incredible thing but if you’re only in the movies for the red carpet, for the glamour of it…” Photo by Earl Gibson III “And if I’ve made a mistake, I’ll say, you have to live your own life. I’ve lived mine and I’m really happy. I will have to figure out with my friends, with the things I own, how do I make“You saw the movie. I don’t know why it was so hard to get people to believe in the movie that I wanted to make. I’ve made movies before. I don’t think my movie is better than anybody else’s movie but I don’t think anybody else’s movie is better than mine.
“A curtain can open. Remember the curtain? Does your theater have a curtain anymore? We don’t. In America, I don’t know any theaters that have curtains anymore. And as a child, I loved that.”was to make it for myself. Because I know what it’s like to sit out there in the audience and the curtain opens and something magic is going to happen.”
“They, ooh, come, I want to have a picture . I said, no, come get your checkbook out. I want to see, let’s talk money. I’m by myself a lot.”“I would like to come back here for the third movie. Cannes has been a partner to me. This film festival that you have, it might be a good place to come socially, have drinks, meet people, meet girls, meet boys, whatever. But for me, Cannes helped give my movie life. In theory, I can’t thank you enough.
“So, I started this in 1988 and I couldn’t make it. But I wouldn’t fall out of love with it. I don’t know what that says about me but I couldn’t fall out of love with Hayes.” “And I wanted him to be close to me. I was away from home. I needed my family close to me. It was a way for me to trap him and have him close to me.”
“Living in Cannes, Paris, Los Angeles, that’s simple. It’s not that you don’t have trouble. People have trouble in every decade, every century.” “Would it translate? I didn’t know. I wrote a western with Jon Baird that included women as the biggest characters in the movie. It made sense to me.”Still from Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1.’ Photo courtesy of New Line Cinema